{"id":8344,"date":"2026-04-28T09:47:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sprott.carleton.ca\/exec-ed\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=8344"},"modified":"2026-04-28T09:47:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:47:37","slug":"allan-thompson","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/sprott.carleton.ca\/exec-ed\/people\/allan-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"Allan Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Allan Thompson has been the head of Carleton University\u2019s journalism program since 2020. He joined Carleton in 2003 after 17 years as a reporter with the Toronto Star, where he specialized in covering foreign policy, defence and immigration. It was during his time as a reporter in The Star\u2019s Ottawa bureau that Thompson began reporting on Romeo Dallaire, documenting Dallaire\u2019s journey from the time he left his command in Rwanda, through the descent into post-traumatic stress disorder, his re-emergence on the public stage as a champion for war-affected children and during Dallaire\u2019s key witness testimony at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Thompson published an edited collection called <em>The Media and the Rwanda Genocide <\/em>and also established and managed a five-year media development project in Rwanda called The Rwanda Initiative. 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